future. The healing process afterwards was not easy, and provided the leaders of the United States with difficult tasks and challenges ahead. Reconstruction after the Civil War was meant to help put our country back together, but it ended up being a disappointing failure. As the Civil War came to a close, multiple questions had to be asked. How would the Confederacy be allowed back and with what punishments? Would black men have full equality? Would Congress or the president establish the new…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a man who stood up for his beliefs even until death. He left us an example of what a true Christian person is like. He lived in the time of World War II and the Holocaust. And because of his involvement as a spy during the World War II, opposing the Nazi government, and maintaining a leadership role in the Confessing Church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is remembered as a very important individual in the fight against human injustice. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on…
The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…
Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…